Word: ardent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boring, nor gripping, this picture has its beauty in the Russian mode of presentation. The intense characterization and fascinating attention to detail make it an artistic masterpiece. Close-ups of the native physiognomy are numerous; the lorgnetted double-chinned dowager, the bewhiskered pre-Revolution land owner, and then the ardent young Nihilist and the inspired musician. In contradiction to the travelogues, Amkino Productions has found some hauntingly lovely Russian women...
Last week, after another ardent broadcast from the Premier, French citizens went to the polls, gave Doumergue a substantial, if not a smashing victory over his Communist-Socialist opponents. Believers in democracy breathed more freely...
...steel strike threatened (TIME, July 9). Its members: 1) aloof, judicial Walter P. Stacy, who expected after a fortnight as temporary chairman to return to his job as Chief Justice of North Carolina's Supreme Court; 2) grim, grizzled Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley, U. S. N., retired, ardent Big Navy man, arbitrator of two railway labor disputes; 3) liberal James Mullenbach, longtime mediator in Chicago's clothing industry...
...times. We hear a great deal in this age of enlightened democracy of equality of opportunity, but there is probably no democratic nation in the world which can really say such a thing exists. In Russia to become a leader in the governmental administration one must be an ardent Communist; in Germany one must be a National Socialist who believes that the Hitler administration has formulated a philosophy and plan that will be tenacled to Germany for at least a thousand years to come, and in the United States one must know how to sit on a picket fence without...
Still fond of English, his old specialty, President MacCracken teaches a freshman Education course which consists largely of lessons from his own College Chaucer. He has traveled widely, worked hard to promote international friendship through student exchanges. An ardent Democrat, President MacCracken is a warm friend of his college's great & good neighbor and trustee, President Roosevelt...